Comments on: View Doc/PDF locally on iPhone

By: james

james — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:27:58 +0000

Reading PDF’s on iPhone is a nightmare because the PDf does not reflow the text so you have to scroll right and then left for EACH line of text in the PDF. Is there any way to get the iPhone to replow text without scrolling using the native PDF reader? Alternatively is there any way to create a PDF with the page size set for iPhone reading in Landscape mode – so user does not have to scroll right then left for each line of text in PDF?

By: jan frydendal

jan frydendal — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:06:22 +0000

ftpdisc (also in a free lite version) can be used to download PDF files to the iPhone. Later you can view these file offline.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:14:25 +0000

hi folks…came across this post and thought some people might be interested in our Aji Reader / Aji Annotate apps, which are perfect for handling large PDF libraries for offline reading — similar to Air Sharing, but much better PDF reading features. check out our youtube vids at: http://www.youtube.com/user/ajiapps

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Study Tips: Pre-Course Reading « Organisation for Students — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:09:05 +0000

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By: Chad Warren

Chad Warren — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:53:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information. I wanted to read a pdf ebook on my iphone and found the email to yourself method sufficient for my purposes.

By: cody taylor

cody taylor — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:24:01 +0000

I’ve tried everything mentioned above to try and make my iphone a great ebook reader primarily for the giant folder of pdfs that I have but most fell a little short of what I wanted. I finally settled on reading local pdfs with Safari which I uploaded to the iphone using SCP. I didn’t have time for all the URI stuff and emailing due to the large amount of reading. Check out my tutorial here :
http://codytaylor.org/?p=13984

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:50:59 +0000

Thanks Simon NG

I did try out airshare and do like it. I have also recently Jailbroken miphone, and ssh’ing is great to do all kinds of stuff.

Thanks

By: Simon Ng

Simon Ng — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:36:11 +0000

@eric, you can checkout this post about how to use Air Sharing.

By: eric

eric — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:25:13 +0000

thanks for straight forward explanations. But how to view PDF’s if they are too big to mail or if you do not have Mac? I have airshare but dont know how to get the PDF from my PC onto my iphone. Why cant i connect with cable to my PC and then drag and drop PDF file on my iphone. I dont know how to use Wi-Fi. thanks in advance.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:00:48 +0000

Thanks for some great info! I am almost there ~ I scp’d a pdf file from my mac to iphone under /var/mobile/Media/EBooks ~ but now… how do I get Stanza to open it? :\

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:45:21 +0000

FileSync
http://www.jeff-net.com/filesync.htm

I recommend FileSync from Jeff-Net. You can view PDFs, PPTs, XLSs, and DOCs. Works great and it has email support, too, to mail files from your iPhone to other users.

By: Simon Ng

Simon Ng — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:15:52 +0000

G tolentino, PDF Viewer can only be found on old version of Installer. So, I suggest you to download Air Sharing, Discover from App Store. Or you can use “DOCS” from Cydia to read PDF.